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Bronze Award
The Whopper Island
Burger King
Brazil
2025
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Entrant Company
DM9
Entry Type
Product/Service
Program
Clio Awards 2025
Medium Type
Professional
Medium
Direct
Category
Digital/Mobile
Burger King has a clear market differentiation: our burgers are cooked with fire. The competition's isn't. So in order to leverage and remind Brazilians of our main feature we turned to one of people's favorite topics: a good, healthy, fun controversy. And Brazilians love a good controversy. So do we. IDEA: The brief was to present Burger King's credentials of real food, cooked with real fire, and point out that the main competition (McDonald's) isn't. We found a real island in the middle of the Indian Ocean with an active volcano, that ironically is named McDonald's. We used the remote island to point out that a place with real fire can't be a McDonald's. With that at the center of our message, we invited people to storm to the island's location on Google Maps and use #WhopperIsland on the review section, in order to change the name of that place on Google Maps. Anyone who did it got a R$15 discount coupon to purchase a Whopper on the Burger King app. IMPLEMENTATION: We started our idea using some of the biggest influencer that play "GeoGuessr" to find this remote island in the Indian ocean with an active volcano on google maps. After that we launched a mockumentary style film that described and showed a beautiful island and nature sanctuary with an active volcano and pointed out the irony that a place with real fire can't be McDonald's. With that film we invited people to flock to google maps coordinates and leave reviews on the McDonald Island using #WhopperIsland. By doing so, participants received a R$15 coupon to purchase a whopper on the Burger King app. 1,000 coupons were placed at the geolocation on google maps. All of them were claimed within the first 15 minutes of the activation. We made another 1,000 coupons available the following day. And the following. And then the following. Results were easy to track as we had 3,643 whoppers purchased in our app using the R$15 #WhopperIsland coupons on the three days following the activation launch.
Credits
Advertising Agency
DM9
São Paulo
Advertising Agency
DM9
São Paulo
Agency Network
DDB
São Paulo
Holding Company
Omnicom
São Paulo
Advertiser / Brand
Burger King
São Paulo
Chief Creative Officer
Icaro Doria
DM9
Chief Creative Officer
Icaro Doria
DM9
Marketing
Juliana Cury
Zamp Burger King
Executive Creative Director
Nina Lucato
DM9
Executive Creative Director
Laura Esteves
DM9
Chief Production Officer
Anna Ferraz
DM9
Creative Director
Caio Zuchi
DM9
Creative Director
Bruno Anibal
DM9
ACD
Pedro Rosadas
DM9
ACD
Diego Guerhardt
DM9
Copywriter
Caique Llaguno
DM9
Art Director
Gus Souza
DM9
Head of Art
Philippe Demar
DM9
Chief Executive Officer
Pipo Calazans
DM9
COO
Thomas Tagliaferro
DM9
Chief Media Officer
Renata Valio
DM9
Producer
Caio Rodrigues
DM9
Producer
Sthefany Nascimento
DM9
Producer
Isabela Ximenes
DM9
Producer
Jess Tomaz
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